Cassandra Pybus
Biographic Data
| ID | 2033169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cassandra Pybus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cassandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Pybus |
| SIGNATURE | PYBUS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Enterprising Women
In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas’s mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children…
The Problematic Mr Jefferson
4 July 1826 was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and it was also the day Thomas Jefferson breathed his last. To the besotted nation, he bequeathed soaring rhetoric on liberta
Vincent Carretta. Phillis Wheatley
Like his acclaimed biography of Olaudah Equiano, Vincent Carretta's newest book is the result of prodigious research combined with careful textual analysis. In contrast to the Equiano biography, where Carretta was able to find stunning new information about his subject, there has been very little for Carretta to unearth about Phillis Wheatley. It is not that she was dull, or her life unexceptional; it is just that the woman herself is largely abs…
Tense and Tender Ties
This essay is an exploration of the social and cultural space on the frontier of empire, where sexual and affective transgressions of the taxonomies of race and power were enacted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It begins with research into the life of a mixed race colonist in early Australia, whose story carried me unexpectedly, and in a circuitous way, into the improbable world of Doll Thomas, a free woman of colour in the eighteent…
Jane Landers, Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
Not Fit for Your Protection or an Honest Man’s Company’
William Dawes is one of the very few white men in the history of early colonial Australia who can inspire a universally good press from historians, praised as Australia’s first conscientious objector and perhaps ‘the most morally upright man’ in the fledgling colony. This historical note draws attention to Dawes’ subsequent historical endeavours in Africa and the West Indies which sharply contradict this view and questions why historians have con…
Slavery, Resistance, Freedom
Book Review| October 01 2009 Slavery, Resistance, Freedom Slavery, Resistance, Freedom, Gabor Borritt and Scott Hancock. Cassandra Pybus Cassandra Pybus Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 29 (1): 105–106. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543586 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cassandra Pybus; Slavery, Resistance, Freedom. J…
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundations of the Americas, 1585–1660
Journal Article Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton. Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundations of the Americas, 1585–1660. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 370. Cloth $75.00, paper $22.99 Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton. Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundations of the Americas, 1585–1660.New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 370. Cloth $75.00, paper $22.99. Cassandra Pybus Cas…
War and Society in the American Revolution
One Militant Saint
“One Militant Saint”: The Much Traveled Life of Mary Perth Cassandra Pybus In 1772 in Norfolk Virginia, when the moon provided just enough light, a young slave woman called Mary would strap her baby on her back and slip out of the sleeping household of John Willoughby. Cautiously making her way out of the town, she would walk for about ten miles to the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp.1 Here, in the woods, she would exhort her fellow sufferers to o…
Many Middle Passages
A Less Favourable Specimen
A Less Favourable Specimen':The Abolitionist Response to Self-Emancipated Slaves in Sierra Leone, 1793-1808 Cassandra Pybus (bio) When on 23 February 1807 the bill to abolish the slave trade passed the house of commons, William Wilberforce was exultant. 'Well, Henry', he playfully demanded of his cousin and close colleague Henry Thornton, 'what shall we abolish next?' To which Thornton replied, 'The Lottery, I think.'1 This scene of pious self-co…
A Less Favourable Specimen’
Many middle passages
This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oce…
Black Founders
In this compelling new book, distinguished historian and writer Cassandra Pybus reveals that black convicts were among our first fleet settlers a fact which profoundly complicates our understanding of race relations in early colonial Australia. Most of these black founders were originally slaves from America who had sought freedom with the British during the American Revolution only to find themselves abandoned and unemployed in England when the …
Washington's Revolution
As Harry Washington faced a British military tribunal in 1800, he not may have appreciated the irony that his escape from enslavement to the leader of the rebellion in colonial America led inexorably to his trial for rebellion in Sierra Leone. Where General Washington was subsequently reified as father of the United States, Harry Washington lost everything in his attempt to forge an independent community in West Africa. The contrast between these…
From Epic Journeys of Freedom
Prologue From the vantage point of his farm on the mountain slopes east of Freetown in Sierra Leone, Harry Washington could see the exodus out of the town on September 26, 1800. He knew there was terrible trouble in Freetown and that the boy the company installed as governor had offered one hundred dollars for the capture of several settlers he accused of "an act of open and unprovoked rebellion." For the last few nights the drums from the neighb…
Jefferson's Faulty Math
In London in April 1786, Thomas Jefferson found himself in theawkward position of negotiating with British merchants to whom heowed a great deal of money. On more than one occasion, Jeffersonexcused his incapacity to pay by claiming that General Charles Cornwallishad carried off thirty of his slaves, "the useless and barbarous injury he didme in that instance was more than would have paid your debt, principaland interest." Writing from Paris to a…
From “Black” Caesar to Mudrooroo
A Less Favourable Specimen’
Tense and Tender Ties
This essay is an exploration of the social and cultural space on the frontier of empire, where sexual and affective transgressions of the taxonomies of race and power were enacted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It begins with research into the life of a mixed race colonist in early Australia, whose story carried me unexpectedly, and in a circuitous way, into the improbable world of Doll Thomas, a free woman of colour in the eighteent…
A Less Favourable Specimen
A Less Favourable Specimen':The Abolitionist Response to Self-Emancipated Slaves in Sierra Leone, 1793-1808 Cassandra Pybus (bio) When on 23 February 1807 the bill to abolish the slave trade passed the house of commons, William Wilberforce was exultant. 'Well, Henry', he playfully demanded of his cousin and close colleague Henry Thornton, 'what shall we abolish next?' To which Thornton replied, 'The Lottery, I think.'1 This scene of pious self-co…
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundations of the Americas, 1585–1660
Journal Article Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton. Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundations of the Americas, 1585–1660. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 370. Cloth $75.00, paper $22.99 Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton. Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundations of the Americas, 1585–1660.New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 370. Cloth $75.00, paper $22.99. Cassandra Pybus Cas…
From Epic Journeys of Freedom
Prologue From the vantage point of his farm on the mountain slopes east of Freetown in Sierra Leone, Harry Washington could see the exodus out of the town on September 26, 1800. He knew there was terrible trouble in Freetown and that the boy the company installed as governor had offered one hundred dollars for the capture of several settlers he accused of "an act of open and unprovoked rebellion." For the last few nights the drums from the neighb…
From “Black” Caesar to Mudrooroo
Jefferson's Faulty Math
In London in April 1786, Thomas Jefferson found himself in theawkward position of negotiating with British merchants to whom heowed a great deal of money. On more than one occasion, Jeffersonexcused his incapacity to pay by claiming that General Charles Cornwallishad carried off thirty of his slaves, "the useless and barbarous injury he didme in that instance was more than would have paid your debt, principaland interest." Writing from Paris to a…
Black Founders
In this compelling new book, distinguished historian and writer Cassandra Pybus reveals that black convicts were among our first fleet settlers a fact which profoundly complicates our understanding of race relations in early colonial Australia. Most of these black founders were originally slaves from America who had sought freedom with the British during the American Revolution only to find themselves abandoned and unemployed in England when the …
Washington's Revolution
As Harry Washington faced a British military tribunal in 1800, he not may have appreciated the irony that his escape from enslavement to the leader of the rebellion in colonial America led inexorably to his trial for rebellion in Sierra Leone. Where General Washington was subsequently reified as father of the United States, Harry Washington lost everything in his attempt to forge an independent community in West Africa. The contrast between these…
From Epic Journeys of Freedom
Prologue From the vantage point of his farm on the mountain slopes east of Freetown in Sierra Leone, Harry Washington could see the exodus out of the town on September 26, 1800. He knew there was terrible trouble in Freetown and that the boy the company installed as governor had offered one hundred dollars for the capture of several settlers he accused of "an act of open and unprovoked rebellion." For the last few nights the drums from the neighb…
Many Middle Passages
A Less Favourable Specimen
A Less Favourable Specimen':The Abolitionist Response to Self-Emancipated Slaves in Sierra Leone, 1793-1808 Cassandra Pybus (bio) When on 23 February 1807 the bill to abolish the slave trade passed the house of commons, William Wilberforce was exultant. 'Well, Henry', he playfully demanded of his cousin and close colleague Henry Thornton, 'what shall we abolish next?' To which Thornton replied, 'The Lottery, I think.'1 This scene of pious self-co…
A Less Favourable Specimen’
Many middle passages
This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oce…
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundations of the Americas, 1585–1660
Journal Article Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton. Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundations of the Americas, 1585–1660. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 370. Cloth $75.00, paper $22.99 Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton. Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundations of the Americas, 1585–1660.New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 370. Cloth $75.00, paper $22.99. Cassandra Pybus Cas…
War and Society in the American Revolution
One Militant Saint
“One Militant Saint”: The Much Traveled Life of Mary Perth Cassandra Pybus In 1772 in Norfolk Virginia, when the moon provided just enough light, a young slave woman called Mary would strap her baby on her back and slip out of the sleeping household of John Willoughby. Cautiously making her way out of the town, she would walk for about ten miles to the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp.1 Here, in the woods, she would exhort her fellow sufferers to o…
Not Fit for Your Protection or an Honest Man’s Company’
William Dawes is one of the very few white men in the history of early colonial Australia who can inspire a universally good press from historians, praised as Australia’s first conscientious objector and perhaps ‘the most morally upright man’ in the fledgling colony. This historical note draws attention to Dawes’ subsequent historical endeavours in Africa and the West Indies which sharply contradict this view and questions why historians have con…
Slavery, Resistance, Freedom
Book Review| October 01 2009 Slavery, Resistance, Freedom Slavery, Resistance, Freedom, Gabor Borritt and Scott Hancock. Cassandra Pybus Cassandra Pybus Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 29 (1): 105–106. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543586 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cassandra Pybus; Slavery, Resistance, Freedom. J…
Tense and Tender Ties
This essay is an exploration of the social and cultural space on the frontier of empire, where sexual and affective transgressions of the taxonomies of race and power were enacted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It begins with research into the life of a mixed race colonist in early Australia, whose story carried me unexpectedly, and in a circuitous way, into the improbable world of Doll Thomas, a free woman of colour in the eighteent…
Jane Landers, Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
Vincent Carretta. Phillis Wheatley
Like his acclaimed biography of Olaudah Equiano, Vincent Carretta's newest book is the result of prodigious research combined with careful textual analysis. In contrast to the Equiano biography, where Carretta was able to find stunning new information about his subject, there has been very little for Carretta to unearth about Phillis Wheatley. It is not that she was dull, or her life unexceptional; it is just that the woman herself is largely abs…
The Problematic Mr Jefferson
4 July 1826 was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and it was also the day Thomas Jefferson breathed his last. To the besotted nation, he bequeathed soaring rhetoric on liberta
Enterprising Women
In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas’s mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children…
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